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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @nelom 1 Nov \ on: The gold is no longer in the vaults: we are the collateral of the system. bitcoin
Nice article, I feel people in western countries will react to this according to their class status, the super rich will as always be mostly unaffected, the social degenerate state that relies on handouts won't care if it's analogue or digital, they'll accept it because they haven't worked for it and there is an argument that this lifestyle is an opt out, and then you have the poor middle classes, such a broad class, where the tesla driving 100k is 100k upper middle classes are mixed with the essentially poor lower middle classes, they are slowly boiling frogs, and entirely brainwashed that the state is good, they are all fucked.
We are seeing GenZ GenA starting to show signs of non co-operation which fits nicely with the hard times meme, but people in other parts of the world where culture and the ruling class does things differently, maybe a dictatorship, a communist regime, how does the debt based extraction machine affect all those many types of lives.
Bitcoin's ability to traverse borders, cultures, states, leaders is the feature which will be lost on so many that are plugged in.
Que sera sera stack sats stay humble
Excellent reflection.
The extraction mechanism takes different forms depending on the regime, but the principle remains the same: turning human energy into debt.
In democracies, it disguises itself as welfare; in dictatorships, as direct control.
Bitcoin exposes that shared root - a global system that demands submission, not ideology.
That’s where Bitcoin’s neutrality becomes revolutionary: no matter who rules, power loses its monopoly over value.
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An internal audit of power systems reveals a global pattern. Extraction mechanics? A universal constant (k), a procedural engine (j) that runs on human energy and outputs cash from debt, bonds that channel capital.
I’m comparing the various forms. In mob rule, it’s a not so subtle algorithm of future promises, motivation disguised as narrative warfare like going towards a sunrise. In tyrannical regimes, it’s more blunt like a spotlight on one’s property that’s now walking away from said property like an instrument of control. The difference or inequality is the branding; the sameness or equality is the submission demanding compliance, consent and /or “informed consent.”
This is where Bitcoin, marriage, school gets specific, neutral protocols perform a revolutionary twist that generates torsion. It deverifies old, outdated ‘(stinking thinking), a shared rot, not by fighting an idea or ideology, but by offering a new, global option. It severs the link between human energy and sovereign debt disguised as cash like a military base in a foreign land. Power, regardless of its face, loses its hold on a monopoly, bit by glorious bit. The dream is that the machine, is, for the first time, left idling, its fuel line severed like surgery theory because the mask always falls off!
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Brilliant metaphor.
Extraction as a universal engine is exactly what the system cannot admit - that it doesn’t rely on ideologies, but on a constant flow of human energy.
And when that flow is interrupted - when people stop believing, obeying, or funding - the machine pauses.
Bitcoin doesn’t fight power; it starves it.
It’s silent surgery, not a bloody revolution.
And that’s precisely why it’s so dangerous to any system that feeds on us.
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